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PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences

PR 2.0Deirdre Breakenridge published a new, book, PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences. Brian Solis contributed the foreword and posted it on his blog PR 2.0. Here are some interesting quotes from his foreword.
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5 reasons for creating a Bemba Hyve

5 reasons for creating a Bemba HyveWe have just setup a Bemba group on Hyves, the Bemba Hyve! This is a small part of the Bemba roll-out promotion plan and we like to share our reasons with you. Do you have experience in setting up social network accounts for the purpose of promoting a web application? (more…)

Judging the S-factor of a website

Judging the S-factor of a websiteYou hear these words every day: Social media, social web, web2.0, wikis, blogs, social networks, social bookmarking, presence applications, chat,… A connecting key word is ‘social’. A website has to be social these days. Well, it depends on the owner’s goals of course… (more…)

Get Linkedin - marketing purposes

Getting Linkedin for marketing purposesTamar’s extensive list of ‘Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007‘ shows two blog posts on Linkedin. How can this professional niche social networking site contribute to the marketing of Bemba.com? In this post I will quote pieces of others that I find relevant for an internet startup of our kind. (more…)

Women in startup-branded t-shirts

Women in startup-branded t-shirtsI just read Michael Arrington’s post ‘Things are Looking Good At Startup Schwag’ today – especially the picture – and thought of a photo that I got made for Bemba a few months ago. Okay, maybe it’s not very constructive for building our brand image, but it’s fun. (more…)

Twitter for professional use

Twitter for professional useThe obvious professional reason for using Twitter is networking. When you’ve got a large number of followers, it becomes a platform to – once in a while – communicate about your product. I read some blogs for tips and tricks.

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Optimizing our blog. Why and how?

Optimizing our blog. Why and how?We started our blog as part of our marketing strategy. But why will we want to keep writing, and what’s in it for the reader? Now we know. I feel that a blog must have a reason, to both writer AND the reader. Read more about our goals for blogging and improvements for style, blog features and look & feel. (more…)

Bemba marketing ingredients

Bemba marketing ingredientsBemba.com should become the most easy and fun way for people to share web content with friends. The product needs to be much better than ‘good’. The same counts for its marketing. Terence wrote on his The Internet Entrepreneur Diary: ‘Regardless what product you sell online, it will be either a (more…)




About Bemba Media

Bemba Media is a new social media company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founders Aaron Peters and Arne Dibbits are on a mission to offer people the easiest way to share their web experiences with friends and to discover what’s hot on the web right now.

The company launched Bemba.com in March 2008.

Bemba users share their favorite videos and websites on the social platforms they already use with their friends, like Facebook, Twitter and Hyves. More social networks and (micro-) blogs will follow.

Bemba will become a destination for 'funsurfing' the web, providing easy access to web content that people with similar interests have recently recommended to their friends.

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